Beyond tragic vulnerability: Seneca Thyestes (II)

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Beyond tragic vulnerability: Seneca Thyestes (II) The Vulnerable Body Term 2, lecture 5 The battle for invulnerability: a zero-sum game? Atreus will never be the monstrous, self-sufficient Stoic he wants to be, because the problem of

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Beyond tragic vulnerability: Seneca Thyestes (II) The Vulnerable Body Term 2, lecture 5<br>
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The battle for invulnerability: a zero-sum game? Atreus will never be the monstrous, self-sufficient Stoic he wants to be, because the problem of paternity and desire has not been resolved.
His relationship with Aerope gives the lie to his male independence and invulnerability.
Aerope’s unpolicable sexual behaviour and emotions, and therefore Atreus’ fragile and contingent patriarchal authority, rumble beneath the surface of the play.<br>
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The sterile male body<br>